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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2017 22:20:01 GMT -6
"[Lindsey] Beer’s credits are mostly upcoming, and include the Doug Liman-directed Chaos Walking, as well as Godzilla Vs. Kong, Masters of the Universe, Barbarella and Dungeons and Dragons, all big scale stuff."
Yeah, well - that means that Ms Beer has either handed in a pitch, or has been booked to write a script. This doesn't necessarily mean that there's movement with the project; it means only that a production team and time slots are scouted. The info that is generally out there points to a production date in the 2020s, if at all.
My personal opinion is, the D&D movie, or rather, the prospect for a D&D movie, seems to always be coming up when people are talking about prolific genre screenplay writers being involved in larger-scale projects. I assume this simply means that many have handed in script drafts, and that perhaps some studio writers and script doctors have been assigned to respective writers rooms already. --- Which is a standard pre-production procedure, but does not necessarily point to projects having a fixed schedule already. What news (or curriculum entries) like these are mainly saying is that people have been put on notice for a job they might be considered to take at a later point. - That means, yeah, it's likely a project that's being considered, and perhaps some news are launch to test the prospective audience's response; but right now, anything more than preliminary talks being had would be a big surprise. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2017 1:18:21 GMT -6
Hehe! Hear, hear! - Sorry if I sounded like I was whipersnapping, BTW.
Honestly, though, I think the possibility of a D&D-based series that is not aimed at only children is pretty slim, right now - because of the Tolkien deal with Amazon, mainly, and because of the GoT-sequel deals at HBO. The market for fantasy appears to be pretty saturated, at the moment, especially with stuff like "The Name of the Wind", "Black Company", the Netflix reboot of "The Witcher", and potentially even a "Wheel of Time" TV series coming up. - I know this without being all too much into showbiz and TV, so I am going to assume that there are probably even more projects around that I am missing.
At this point, I dread the possibility of a D&D movie more than I embrace it, honestly: If they adapt some of the classic novels, I am all in for it, but another debacle like the past movies, with more or less generic content, I would rather not want to watch.
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Post by scalydemon on Dec 9, 2017 12:23:10 GMT -6
I got a bad feeling it would be chock full of CGI and have none of the Harryhausen style stop-motion animation that would make me want to see it. It could potentially bring the D&D RPG to an even wider modern day audience.
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Post by ritt on Dec 9, 2017 18:26:01 GMT -6
Perhaps off-topic: The idea of an R-rated Star Trek movie directed by Quentin Tarantino is insane.
I'll be there opening night. Can't wait.
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Post by ritt on Dec 9, 2017 19:58:03 GMT -6
I have to admit Tarantino has a certain panache when it comes to entertaining an audience for ~2 hours. The first time I saw a movie audience get up and applaud in the middle of the theater was when Eli Roth shot you-know-who in the face with an MP-40 burst at the climax of Inglorious Basterds. |
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Post by xerxez on Dec 9, 2017 23:31:05 GMT -6
Perhaps off-topic: The idea of an R-rated Star Trek movie directed by Quentin Tarantino is insane. I'll be there opening night. Can't wait.  |
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Post by DungeonDevil on Feb 21, 2018 22:04:53 GMT -6
Love how they called it a "basement game". LULZ. SMH.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Feb 21, 2018 23:23:14 GMT -6
Growing up in the 70s, "those kids" whose noses were always buried in comic books are now deemed culturally relevant "graphic novel connoisseurs". This is solely because comic book movies make a metric $h!tload of money. Before the LotR movies came out I was the butt of jokes for my lifelong love of Tolkien. What D&D needs is a very well-done movie that elevates us out of the basement and into the penthouse.  |
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Post by DungeonDevil on Apr 1, 2019 21:02:10 GMT -6
There was one before D&D?!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2019 23:16:17 GMT -6
There was one before D&D?! Outside of our hobby's bubble, the claim that D&D is the first RPG "ever" is not uttered with the same ease, because of Magira, Braunstein, Arneson's own "Fantasy Game", and several other proto-RPGs: From a PR view, that's not a discussion you want to have. Whether D&D was the BEST game, yes, but not whether it was the first. With regards to the movie, this might also have to do with the bleakest of rumors regarding the movie: That it will be set in a reimagined version of the world of the TV show, of all things. So, general PR of the movie might literally be talking about "Dungeons & Dragons" in reference to the old series title, and to its (minor, I think) ties to '80s gaming. Which is so terrible and beyond any comprehension, it starts making sense, again. Expect unicorns. |
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Post by DungeonDevil on Apr 2, 2019 22:50:11 GMT -6
There was one before D&D?! Outside of our hobby's bubble, the claim that D&D is the first RPG "ever" is not uttered with the same ease, because of Magira, Braunstein, Arneson's own "Fantasy Game", and several other proto-RPGs: From a PR view, that's not a discussion you want to have. Whether D&D was the BEST game, yes, but not whether it was the first. With regards to the movie, this might also have to do with the bleakest of rumors regarding the movie: That it will be set in a reimagined version of the world of the TV show, of all things. So, general PR of the movie might literally be talking about "Dungeons & Dragons" in reference to the old series title, and to its (minor, I think) ties to '80s gaming. Which is so terrible and beyond any comprehension, it starts making sense, again. Expect unicorns. Frankly, if it were based on the 80s cartoon there would be a ray of hope. However, the only problem with the TV show was that the children were "abducted" against their wills and forced to live in a strange, hostile place that they hated. The children were very vocal on many occasions of their hatred of the place they were in, and the setting is equivalent to the Game itself. Thus, the children (the "spokespeople" for the IP) were badmouthing the IP in a show to, supposedly, promote the IP!! *very big eyeroll* |
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Post by Wet Biscuit McGlee on Apr 3, 2019 10:30:02 GMT -6
Perhaps off-topic: The idea of an R-rated Star Trek movie directed by Quentin Tarantino is insane. I'll be there opening night. Can't wait. I'm guessing a lot of executions by phaser |
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